Monday, November 24, 2008

FRANK SUMATRA AND THE MOB-TE DEUM, 12" E.P., 1981, UK




Jubilant and infectious brilliance from what is essentially Family Fodder in disguise on this brief 12" EP. Aside from a couple of minute-long nugs of quirk (including a delightfully tinkertoy take on Telstar) the bulk of this is comprised of two feature tracks
and man oh man are they ever knockouts, "The Story So Far" an immaculate slice of post punk art pop glory in the Homosexuals mode, "Tedium" a proactively R.I.O.-ish bit of Slapp Happy meets Henry Cow by way of Kew Rhone arch art song wit.

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11 comments:

  1. dislocNovember 24, 2008 at 4:39 AM

    Never heard of this before, thanks!
    Also the The Lo Yo Yo lp is another good example of R.I.O gone P.O.P.

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  2. massageghostNovember 24, 2008 at 5:17 PM

    fodder puns abound!

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  3. AnonymousNovember 24, 2008 at 8:33 PM

    "Tedium" is indeed a nice little piece.

    Wouldn't know if you hadn't shared it!

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  4. maxisinglesNovember 24, 2008 at 9:05 PM

    why oh why can't this be longer?

    thank you so much!

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  5. AnonymousNovember 25, 2008 at 8:14 AM

    Here's something for you and curious people .......Here are links for the Bailey - Sabu - Brotzmann - Live In Okayama cd -------Recorded on Nov 16 th 1987 here are mp3 links -- http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=00bb25726436bb1eab1eab3e9fa335ca30362dea1add66f9 .. here is a link for the cover ...www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~improvised.co/cd002_okayama.jpg

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  6. AnonymousNovember 29, 2008 at 3:05 AM

    thank you so much for all these great albums!

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  7. GRK.November 29, 2008 at 9:01 PM

    Muchos grassyarse!

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  8. AnonymousDecember 1, 2008 at 4:36 PM

    Thanks for sharing - still have this on vinyl, purchased after John Peel played it on national radio :-)

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  9. AnonymousSeptember 23, 2009 at 6:44 PM

    Any chance of posting the LO YO YO - Extra Weapons lp?

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  10. zuiopDecember 11, 2009 at 3:01 AM

    I'll post Lo Yo Yo asap.

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  11. AnonymousApril 12, 2013 at 6:41 PM

    Please Reup if you can. Thanks!

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